Cloud Elements (discontinued) vs. eZintegrations

Areas where it would be appropriate:

1. If you want a really 'deep' integration with a third party software, and you want all the control over how it interacts with your software
2. If you want a totally white-labeled solution, that is totally invisible to your customers.
3. if you care more about a well thought out/useful API, rather than a pretty UI

Areas where it is less appropriate:

1. If you want a Zapier-esque hands-off integration for YOU.
2. if you want your customers to do more of the work, pay for it/etc.
3. if you're a really small business, it could be too expensive. But it depends on your individual contract with them.

Incentivized

eZintegrations is a great cloud-based integration tool, which is well suited in scenarios where extremely fast and real-time integrations are required. It is a low-code platform, which is suitable to use when there is a limited technical expertise available in the organization. It can be used for building powerful visual mapping of the integrations created in real time.

• Customer Support -- They have a knowledgeable team and are very responsive.
• Communication -- Most questions are addressed quickly
• Documentation -- The API documentation is well organized and easy to follow.

Incentivized

• Easy to use
• No technical expertise required
• Extremely fast
• Low-code platform
• Hassle-free integrations

• There weren't really many cons to our experience. The only slight downside was the cost but they worked with us on that to make it work.

Incentivized

MuleSoft is also a similar product to Cloud Elements, but is not available as an option in this form.

Workato and MuleSoft are competing cloud API connector platforms that perform a similar function to Cloud Elements. We chose Cloud Elements over them because CE provided a more robust path to unifying the behavior of connected systems.

Zapier is a workflow automation tool that I feel draws erroneous comparison to Cloud Elements that I need to highlight. Workflow automation tools (Zapier, IFTTT, Microsoft Flow) do provide multiple integrations, but for simplistic scenarios where only a handful of explicitly described steps need accomplished. Cloud Elements is a platform for developers to deliver faster and with higher reliability than making integrations one-by-one in complex systems that solve demanding problems.

Incentivized

eZintegrations is better than the competition because nothing can beat it when it comes to ease of use and speed. The tool, unlike others, doesn't require any technical expertise and can be used by anyone without extreme IT skills. We have selected eZintegrations based on the quality of features that it has with real-time visual mapping dominating them all.

• We are able to build integrations in HALF the time we could build them from scratch.
• They allow our development team to spend more hours focused on developing our core product, not connections to other products.
• Their large catalog of services to connect to allows us to spend much less time researching other platform integration endpoints and increases our R&D speed a considerable amount.

Incentivized

• Helped us track our carrier location in real time
• Helped us issue and collect invoices automatically
• We have improved on route planning significantly through eZintegrations